Reaching Beyond (Without Abandoning) the Category of "Economic, Social and Cultural Rights"
- 1 August 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Project MUSE in Human Rights Quarterly
- Vol. 21 (3) , 633-660
- https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.1999.0043
Abstract
One of the dominant normative features of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 2 is the relatively integrated translation of the aspiration to protect human dignity into the enumeration of fundamental human rights. The bifurcation of what is now thought of as the two grand categories of human rights (so-called “civil and political rights” and “economic and social rights”) had yet to occur at the time of the UDHR’s adoption. These categories were progeny of the UDHR, later created through two instruments: the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 3 and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). 4 [End Page 633]Keywords
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